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Introduction
This article aims at highlighting therole of strategy based-listening in the development
of pragmatic comprehension. It is based on two assumptions: listening extracts are a source of
comprehensible input portraying real-life communication and comprehension precedes
production. I initially comment on the status of the listening skill across different EFL methods
and approaches. I thenaddress pragmatic comprehension and its importance in L2 contexts.
Next, I present bottom-up and top-down processes involved in listening comprehension as well
as Mendelsohn´s framework (1995, 1998) for the teaching of strategy-based listening. Finally, I
report on the findings of an empirical project carried out with a group of eight Brazilian learners
preparing for the IELTS examination in the first semester of 2009.
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